Mixon proved to be explosive for the Texans on Sunday, getting unfastened for the sport’s longest play, a 59-yard scamper up the left facet early within the second quarter. He scored his landing on the bottom with a 20-yard run. His receiving landing got here within the first quarter, when he caught a cross from C.J. Stroud and took it 10 yards for the rating.

“He is bought nice imaginative and prescient,” Stroud stated. “Hhits it as onerous as he can, so only a nice really feel for the sport, an incredible really feel to set his blocks up. When our O-line is obstructing immediately and he is setting blocks, it is a recipe for fulfillment.”

For Mixon, it was good to lastly be again on the sector along with his teammates.

“I felt a giant weight off my shoulders,” Mixon stated. “Lacking time and going on the market with my brothers, going on the market competing and clearly making an attempt to do no matter we will to come back out with the dub. It is a hell of a sense.”

It was the a hundredth profession sport for Mixon, and his 7.8 yards per carry is the third-highest whole in a sport in his profession.